Stubblefield Enjoys New Digs

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Nobody likes to come into Network Associates Coliseum and contend with the Silver and Black - period. New Raider and All-Pro Defensive Tackle Dana Stubblefield can attest to that. "It's different playing against these guys in the black hole," Stubblefield said. Is Dana looking forward to being on the favorable side of the hole? "Are you kidding me?" That was his reply when reporters posed that question on day two of the Raiders recent mini-camp. The 6-2, 290-pound defensive tackle spent seven seasons across the Bay with the San Francisco 49ers, where Network Associates Coliseum was considered enemy territory. Now, Stubblefield calls it home.
Stubblefield joined the Raiders as a free agent after spending his first five seasons with the 49ers, then three seasons with the Washington Redskins from 1998-2000, and two more seasons with the 49ers in 2001 and 2002. His accolades preceded his arrival into Oakland. Stubblefield was named Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1993 and Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press in 1997 when he tallied 15 sacks, second in the NFL that season. He rounds out his resume with three Pro Bowl selections (1994, 1995, 1997) and a Super Bowl ring (Super Bowl XXIX)....more (http://www.raiders.com/newsroom/newsroomNewsDetail.jsp?id=6892)

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NAPA, Calif. - Dana Stubblefield has been curious for some time just what it would be like to wear the Silver and Black. Oakland Raiders senior assistant Bruce Allen has the answer.

"Doesn't he look good in it?" Allen said of the team's new defensive tackle. "He looks much more handsome in it. It does him well."

Stubblefield, released by the San Francisco 49ers in February in a salary-cap move, is less interested in how he looks - his top priority is making sure he can keep up with the rest of the Raiders' talented veterans on defense....

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Lineman joins several other former 49ers across the bay
With age comes wisdom, and a profound sense of self-preservation if you find yourself still pounding out a living along an NFL defensive line after a decade or so.

Perhaps longtime 49ers mainstay Dana Stubblefield could have bagged a fatter contract last spring had he cast his free-agent line farther than the 12-mile width of San Francisco Bay. Then again, there was a lot to be gained from extending a 10-year NFL career another few seasons with a team that's fast become a retirement home for able-bodied 49ers castoffs.

"Don't I look good in silver and black?" Stubblefield asked, sounding the refrain uttered in recent seasons by former and current teammates Charlie Garner, Jerry Rice and Bill Romanowski. ...

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